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PSN Backup and Running… for the most part…

Posted by John Sorensen on May 15th, 2011
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As most know by now the Sony PlayStation Network started being restored last night. As of now it appears that most of the US is up but there are reports that some users are still having problems changing their password, for example me. I updated my system but then when I tried to change my password I received the error “80710D36″. I tried several times and just kept getting the same error. After I did a bit of googling I returned back to my PS3 and tried it again and it allowed me to...
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PSN Timeline update

Posted by John Sorensen on May 10th, 2011
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Patrick Seybold, a Sony spokesperson has cleared up a “rumor” that PSN would not be up until May 31st as reported first by Bloomberg. Seybold is stating that no such date has been announced and that they are trying to restore functionality as quickly as possible. Today, May 10th, Seybold released a statement on the PlayStation Blog saying “At this time, I can’t give you an exact date, as it will likely be at least a few more days.” A few days compared to 20 days is a big difference. Hopefully...
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Sony is not the only company with problems…

Posted by John Sorensen on May 3rd, 2011
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Sony’s press release today notified users that along with PSN being compromised their SOE services were compromised as well. They are unclear if they stem from the same incident or the SOE findings were just a byproduct of researching the PSN incident. To keep this whole “Sony fiasco” in perspective a good place to look is DataLossDB. One example, and the largest data breach known, shows that Heartland Payment Systems, a credit card processor had 130,000,000 (yes that is 130 MILLION)...
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PSN Outage – Day 12

Posted by John Sorensen on May 2nd, 2011
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Sony has been trickling out information bit by bit but mostly to combat all the rumors swarming on the web and twitter. The newest press release from Sony released today (5/2/2011) talks mostly about the rumors of a database containing credit card information being up for sale. Sony says that this is false, at least to the best of their knowledge. Another point/clarification made in the press release was in regards of the psn user passwords. It turns out that the passwords were not stored in “plain...
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PSN Outage – Day 7

Posted by John Sorensen on April 27th, 2011
Even though the PSN network has been down for 7 days it was only yesterday that Sony admitted that the worst case scenario has happened, user information was obtained during the breach. The breach took places between the 17th and 19th of april allowing the attackers almost two days to obtain what they wanted before Sony shutdown PSN. As an Admin I can understand why they had to shutdown but as a PSN user I am frustrated and now hearing that possible credit card info could have been obtained makes...
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Verizon’s Worry Free Guarantee.. not so free – UPDATED

Posted by John Sorensen on June 1st, 2010
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I finally received the HTC Incredible from Verizon and at first sight the phone is great. Besides having to get used to a new interface I really have no major complaints, only minor ones, except for the fact that they shipped me a defective phone. I noticed the first when talking it the persons voice on the other end sounded like they were talking into a tin can. I tried it on speaker phone and it worked and sounded perfect. I updated the tower information by dialing *228 but that dint help. Over...
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Still Waiting HTC Incredible!!! – UPDATED

Posted by John Sorensen on May 24th, 2010
I ordered the HTC Incredible on May 10th from Verizon online. When I ordered it through the Verizon website it said that it would be shipped out on the 21st. The 21st and no email from Verizon with a tracking number so I called to speak to a rep and they were unable to give me a ship date. The rep’s best guess was that it could possibly be shipped on June 1st, 11 days after the original ship date and a month after I actually ordered the phone. When I checked the order status on the site before...
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If computer languages were car..

Posted by John Sorensen on March 25th, 2010
“C” is a racing car that goes fast but breaks down every 50 miles “C++” is a souped-up racing car with dozens of extra features that only breaks down every 250 miles, but when it does, nobody can figure out what went wrong. “Java” is a family station wagon. It’s easy to drive, it’s not too fast, and you can’t hurt yourself. “Lisp” looks like a car, but with enough tweaking you can turn it into a pretty effective airplane or submarine. “Perl”...
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Is Hell…..?

Posted by John Sorensen on August 20th, 2009
I did not write the following but found it one day scouring the internet. I just thought I would share. Oh – ya and I agree with the “A” The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington engineering mid-term. The answer was so “profound” that the Professor shared it with colleagues, and the sharing obviously hasn’t ceased… Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or Endothermic (absorbs heat)? Most of the students wrote Proofs...
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Things I’ve learned while being an Admin

Posted by John Sorensen on May 26th, 2009
You have been granted magic powers. Items WILL self-repair with JUST YOUR presence. Use this power wisely. Do not use it to try and get free snacks from the vending machine. Certain people get ‘VETO power’ past the Help Desk and go directly to you. Not right but that just IS. One department that will abuse this most will be “Sales”. Enough said. Developers like freedom. They don’t like restrictions. Hint. Locking them down to ‘guest’ access is NOT productive....
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